An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White].

  • White, John.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would not thrive, it would be well worth cult vation. I have often heard it faid, that cattle do not eat this orafs when ina recent ftate ; but this opinion feems to have originated from feeing it in tufts in meadows fome time after the -cattle are taken off for the feafon. However, I can fay from experience, that cattle do eat it in a recent fate, and that with avidity. There are grounds adjoining the fouth and weft fides of the Botanic gardens, which are now, and have been under meadow before the formation of the Garde S. Thefe meadows abound with Da@ylis glomerata : the aftergrafs is generally fet to dairymen, and | have frequently ftood a confiderable time to ob- ferve whether cattle refufed the Daétylis or not, but I never found that they had any objection to it; and, in the courfe of time, the entire of the grafles being eaten to a level, is a clear demon- fration that they do not refufe it. The reafon of this grafs appearing in tufts is, when cattle eat the entire pafture or aftergrafs bare, they are generally removed to another field; and as the Dadylis glomerata poffeffes the quickeft powers of vegetation of any other grafs, it very foon fur- mounts all the reft, and being of a ftrong luxu- riant nature appears in tufts, which occafions people